Staff reward positive behaviour with a ‘dojo’. Parents join an online app, Class Dojo, which alerts them when their child receives a dojo. These may be given out for: good listening, sitting quietly and paying attention on the carpet, being kind or helpful, moving around the school in a sensible way and for many many more positive reasons. When each child in the class has collected 100 dojos we have a class celebration.
Class rules are agreed together in a class charter. When rules are broken we have a behaviour management system in Reception Class of a traffic light system. Children start on Green and if a rule is broken they are often given a reminder of the expected behaviour. Another occasion of poor behaviour results in their name moving to Amber. This is a visual reminder to change this behaviour. A further incidence of poor behaviour would result in their name moving to red. This then has a consequence. Children are asked to take a 5 minute time out to think about the behaviour and they lose 1 dojo point.
As a school we have a zero tolerance on intentionally hurting others. In this case you would automatically move to red.
On a very rare occasion children who then do not modify their behaviour would visit the Head Teacher’s office to discuss their actions.
Each day everyone returns to the green.
